--- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > No you don't understand what I'm saying. Certainly > > the mind is > > "contained" in consciousness but what happens if the > > local tax collector > > calls you and says "Peter, you own $5,000 in back > > taxes and have to pay > > up by the end of the month or we'll take your > > house." Do you remain > > "meless" or does "the Peter and the tax bill" > > suddenly become the center > > of focus? My bet it is the latter. :) > > I understand you perfectly well and I still argue that > you are confounding consciousness with mind. "Me" is > an artifact of consciousness projected into and > identified with mind. This creates a "me" or an "I" > that is experienced as self. But this "me" or "I" > doesn't exist, it appears to exist in waking state, > but in CC this disappears and it becomes very clear > that there never was an "individual" called Frank, Tom > or Bob. In CC there is a perfect duality of > "empty-Self" and everything else including all > functions of mind. So you get the tax bill and > freakout in CC as you would in waking state. However > there is no you to freakout or not freakout in CC. Who > you are in CC has nothing to do with anything in the > relative. When you have a waking state "me" you > freakout over the bill. When you don't have a "me" > freakout over the bill still occurs, but it has > nothing to do with who "you" are.
Perhaps, though for many, freeakout might be too strong a reaction to something as trivial as a bill for backtaxes. Even many non-CC people are able to take such things in stride.
